I am the most important person in your life! You don't believe me? Ok, who's the most important person in your life? Obviously the one without whom you can't live. Can you think of surviving in this world if you do not from an opinion. An opinion on everything. Your opinion on who is the hottest actress to your opinion on Iraq war to your opinion on Indo-Pak cricket series to your opinion on what would you like to have for dinner tonight and your opinion on what would you do to earn that dinner.

Herein I enter your life. Or do I force my way into your life? No. I would like you to form an opinion that I am indispensable to your life! That is my role. Helping you form an opinion, the way i like. Now don't be under misconception that I push my ideas into you. Consider millions of people living in a society. All having different opinions and hence difference of ideologies. Won't this lead to clash among civilization? May be now you will understand my importance. I tend to form a common opinion among you all. Come to think of it, all people thinking in the same manner. The perfect society! So, now probably you realize how important I am in maintaining harmony in the society.

Still not clear about my role? Let me explain with an example. After all it is my job to make myself clear, otherwise how will you form an opinion. Remember the recent fee cut in IIMs by our honourable minister Mr. M.M. Joshi. What a fool I am! How can you forget the incident, I did so much to let you remember it for quite some time. Coming back to the point. What is the general public opinion (GPO for short) about the incident? Before telling you what the public opinion is let me make the term 'GPO' more clear.

GPO is the opinion of public that agrees with my viewpoint, what i want them to agree on. There are some unfortunate people who are unable to form an opinion as I would like them to. They tend to analyze the issue themselves and many a times form an opinion different from GPO and create inharmony in the society as i just explained. I hope that I have made myself clear on what in GPO and also hope that you are amongst the fortunate ones.

Coming back to IIM fee slash example, the GPO is how wrong the government is. It would deteriorate the standards of IIMs which are aspiring to be world class B-schools. It is foolishness to subsidise the already subsidised professional degree and would only lead to the decrease of the corpus of these B-schools from Rs 100 Crore to Rs 80 Crore. I also unearthed the hidden agenda behind the fee cut, that was the greater control the government wanted over these institutes. But then unfortunately, some unfortunates simply do not want the society to think in a similar way. They always create a difference of opinion. They pointed out that the government would be compensating these institutes for these further subsidies, so wherein comes the financial crunch for the institutes. They also went out to point that in leading B-schools like Howard a lecturer takes 12hrs/week whereas in IIM-A it is only 4hrs/week.

So much research and analytical thinking goes into the statements issued by these unfortunates. Can a common man understand all this? Here lies the difference. The opinion that I tend to form is one that can easily be grasped and understood by a common man, and hence much analytical reasoning is not needed into them. They appear correct at the face of it. This is the difference, I think about common man so much, but these unfortunates live in a world of themselves.

Now you might be thinking how inflexible I am. I am very rigid and never try to see the flip side of anything. But hold on. I am not like that. What do you think, that instead of fee cut the government had increased the fee two fold, I would have supported the government? No, Never. See I have been telling you right through that my job is to form an opinion. An opinion that is formed easily. Now aren't most of us always suspicious of what government does and very easily find the hidden agenda of the government. Well, in keeping sync with that thought process i would have blasted the government for that fee raise and would have instantaneously formed a GPO.

Now this article must have been read by some fortunates and some unfortunates. The unfortunates would have definitely tried to analyze the article and raked their brains to guess who I am. But then we have many fortunate people who just went through the article without giving any trouble to their grey cells. I feel they are really fortunate because they are not being subjected to wear and tear of their brains. For these fortunate people let me tell who I am. I am "The Responsible Journalist".